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by diggernet 1138 days ago
When SSDs came out I avoided them out of reliability concerns, but figured the endurance would improve over time as the tech matured. But it turns out the reality is that endurance has plummeted:

SLC: 100K cycles

MLC: 10K cycles

TLC: 3K cycles

QLC: 1K cycles

https://www.kingston.com/en/blog/pc-performance/difference-b...

Now SSDs seem to be taking over the laptop world and HDDs are getting harder to find (and smaller, as the larger CMR drives get replaced with garbage SMR models). It seems like reliable storage in a laptop is quickly becoming a thing of the past.